Application Security Engineer II — Hands-on Security Ops

Mintel (M) Consulting Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Learning & development

Hands-on with Microsoft security tools

Job summary

Mintel (M) Consulting Sdn Bhd is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join its Information Security team in Kuala Lumpur. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, and Architecture to secure applications at scale and improve the security of our software development lifecycle.

You will own the security triage workflow end-to-end, investigate alerts, and operate security controls within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of practical experience in security operations, triage, investigation and response.
• Experience coordinating security issues across teams.
• Hands-on with Microsoft 365 security stack, such as Microsoft Defender.
• Working knowledge of identity and access management including accounts and group management.
• Exposure to endpoint and device security investigations.
• Experience supporting or contributing to Conditional Access policy hygiene or tuning.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the security triage workflow end-to-end (intake to prioritisation to coordination to closure).
• Investigate and respond to security alerts and incidents across endpoint, identity, and email security.
• Operate and improve security controls within the Microsoft security ecosystem, including Defender, Intune, identity, and Conditional Access.
• Contribute to security configuration hygiene and tuning, reducing noise and improving baseline posture.
• Coordinate remediation activities with wider IT teams.
• Support incident response activities within agreed guardrails and escalation thresholds.
• Contribute to security improvement projects, including configuration uplift and operational maturity initiatives.
• Identify recurring issues and feed them into continuous improvement cycles with the Operational Security Lead.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Triage & investigation

Identity & access management

Microsoft Defender

Intune

Endpoint security

Communication skills

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Intune

Conditional Access

Job description

Mintel (M) Consulting Sdn Bhd is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join its Information Security team in Kuala Lumpur. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, and Architecture to secure applications at scale and improve the security of our software development lifecycle.

You will own the security triage workflow end-to-end, investigate alerts, and operate security controls within the Microsoft ecosystem.